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After Eden: Searching for the Tree of Life Today
Rabbi Natan of Breslov writes that the main work of a person's whole life is to repair the damage of the Tree of Knowledge. But what was the damage? Isn't knowing the difference between good and evil the whole point of religion?
In our first episode, we read closely through the story of the Garden. Why would God plant a tree in the middle of the garden and then forbid anyone to eat from it? What did the snake actually offer? And what if the Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge have more to do with each other than we think?
Then we follow humanity out of Eden, to Cain and Hevel, the farmer…
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